#020: 2017 CrossFit Games Debrief
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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We're talking about Madison, the programming, & the lessons we learned during the 2017 season
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| 0:00.0 | You know, Katja, coming in fifth, you know, I see it as something that I could have done more |
| 0:06.1 | and it's so insanely motivating for me to do more for her because I believe that she did a lot. |
| 0:14.4 | She worked really hard. She did everything I asked of her. I believe I was asking the wrong things. |
| 0:18.7 | I had some holes in my game. So I'm going to use that because I know what that feeling was |
| 0:25.1 | when she didn't do as well as I thought she was capable of because of me. I take complete |
| 0:32.3 | ownership of this. It's like I don't think that she was underperformed. I think that she did |
| 0:37.1 | phenomenally. She was not unfit. She won two of the events. There's just some holes in my game |
| 0:44.7 | that I need to fill and this is the negative side of the dark side. I'm incredibly |
| 0:51.2 | motivated by that. I don't want that feeling again. What confidence has nothing to do with winning |
| 0:58.1 | or the leaderboard. What confidence is is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. |
| 1:09.7 | Okay Ben, welcome back. Thanks, Patrick. Once again, there's been a long delay and we will blame |
| 1:16.2 | the CrossFit Games for it. That's what we're going to talk about as well. We'll try to make up for it. |
| 1:21.5 | We're about a month, a little less than a month, maybe out from the CrossFit Games. |
| 1:25.9 | You and I haven't even really talked about the games too much. That's what I want to talk to you about |
| 1:29.2 | is just what the games were like. What did obviously new venue, lots of new things, |
| 1:37.1 | what you learned, tons of stuff. Let's just start with just overall experience this year at the |
| 1:42.5 | Games. What stuck out to you a few weeks after as the big moments for you? |
| 1:48.1 | The big obvious ones are, to me, is the events, slash the programming, the venue, |
| 1:56.0 | where people finished on the leaderboard. That's like, if I had to give overarching themes to the |
| 2:00.4 | what I remember and what kind of stuck out, that's where I would go. Starting with the venue, |
| 2:11.3 | because it seems like the most obvious one. Madison is the right city for us. It's awesome. |
| 2:18.4 | I think that that mid-market city, the Madison's or the Boulder Colorados or the Charleston |
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